{8} "I ka Wā Mamua, ka Wā Mahope" (The Future is in the Past) - Hawaiian Kingdom History

In this 8th presentation of a 12-part series titled "Hawaiian Kingdom History: The Kingdom, the Church, the Land", Dr. Ron Williams Jr. shares history that brings us to the present day with examples of the foundations of racism and white supremacy that were laid in 1887 and 1893. This fourth and final presentation by Kumu Ron is titled "I ka Wā Mamua, ka Wā Mahope" (The Future is in the Past).
Resources from this series: www.hcucc.org/...
About the presenter:
Dr. Ronald Williams Jr. holds a doctorate in history from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a specialization in Hawaiʻi and Native-language resources. He is a former faculty member of the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, UH Mānoa and in 2017 was the founding director of the school’s Lāhui Hawaiʻi Research Center. Dr. Williams is also a past president of the 128-year old Hawaiian Historical Society. He currently works as an archivist at the Hawaiʻi State Archives and serves as Hoʻopaʻa Kūʻauhau (Historian) for the grassroots political organization Ka ʻAhahui Hawaiʻi Aloha ʻĀina. Dr. Williams was a contributing author to the 2019 Samuel Manaiākalani Kamakau Book of the Year award-winning publication, Hoʻoulu Hawaiʻi: The Kalākaua Era. He has published in a wide variety of academic and public history venues including the Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America, the Hawaiian Journal of History, and Hana Hou! Magazine.
Hosted by the Justice and Witness Missional Team of the Hawai‘i Conference United Church of Christ, in collaboration with the Association of Hawaiian Evangelical Churches.
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